- Season 24/25
Ô - où s'en vont les ruisseaux ?
ERIK ORSENNA – ORLANDO BASS
Commissioned from Académicien Erik Orsenna and composer Orlando Bass, the mélologue Ô forms the foundation of the Orchestre Au Bahut artistic project in Île-de-France and Centre-Val de Loire for the 2024/2025 season.
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In 2022, in his book La Terre a Soif, Erik Orsenna recounts his journey around the world’s great rivers. Deeply moved by it, Claire Gibault approached the author, asking him to write an original text on the theme of freshwater in the world.
“Loire or Mississippi, certain words resonate in the silence as if they were already music, Ganges and Paraná, legends and religions, Congo or Dnieper, pathways and borders, for war or for peace, and the Po, from which Venice was born, then the Rhône with its pink Camargue birds, not forgetting Tibet—glory and gratitude to you, oh roof of the Earth, oh source of all sources: do you know, you ungrateful ones, that one in two humans drinks from one of the great rivers flowing from its lofty glaciers? Welcome to the world of waterways, immense Amazon or timid streams, gifts from the sky and threats to cities—welcome to the beating heart of life.”
Erik Orsenna
les bahuts
IN ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
Académie de Créteil:
- Lycée Jean Vilar de Meaux (77) – 2nd year
- Collège Paul Klee, Thiais (94) – 2nd year
- Collège Victor Schoelcher, Torcy (77) – 2nd year
Académie de Versailles:
- Lycée Marguerite Yourcenar, Morangis (91) – 2nd year
- Collège H Wallon, Garges-lès-Gonnesse (95) – 3rd year
- Lycée Nikola Tesla de Dourdan (91) – 2nd year
- Lycée Jean Monnet de La Queue-les-Yvelines (78) 2nd year
- Lycée EREA Françoise Dolto, Beaumont-sur-Oise (95) – 4th year
- Lycée Galilée, Gennevilliers (92) – 3rd year
IN CENTRE-VAL DE LOIRE
Académie d’Orléans-Tours:
- École élémentaire Jules Ferry, Bourges (18) – 1st year
- École élémentaire Marcel Plaisant, Bourges (18) – 1st year
- École élémentaire Nicolas Leblanc, Bourges (18) – 1st year
- École maternelle et élémentaire, Vignoux-sous-les-Aix (18) – 1st year
- Collège Roger Martin du Gard, Sancergues (18) – 1st year
- Lycée professionnel des métiers du bâtiment Jean de Berry, Bourges (18) – 3rd year
les temps forts
Mid-September 2024
Back-to-School Meeting: Presentation of the Artistic Project to the Educational Teams of Île-de-France and Centre-Val de Loire
October – December 2024
Meetings with the Conductor and Artists in Schools of Île-de-France and Centre-Val de Loire
January – April 2025
Start of artistic co-creation workshops in Île-de-France and Centre-Val de Loire
April – June 2025
Grand OAB Tour: Orchestra Visits to Schools and Presentation of Students’ Works